Chrysler Replacement Vinyl Landau Tops
Chrysler landau vinyl tops show up starting with the Chrysler 300 landau tops and Chrysler Imperial landau tops and continued all the way through 1990’s models like the Chrysler Fifth Avenue, Imperial, New Yorker and Newport landau tops. Chrysler landau vinyl tops are simply a hard metal roof with durable vinyl material covering it for a soft, convertible-like appeal. Replacing your Chrysler vinyl landau top is easy with TopsOnline because all of our replacement landau tops use original patterns and are made to be fitted and ready-to-install because they are pre-cut with matching seams and details to the original Chrysler landau vinyl tops.
Chrysler Newport landau tops, have a full vinyl top that starts on the front top windshield and extends all the way back to the trunk and down the side quarter panels. Sometimes, this arrangement is called a full vinyl top or cabriolet top, but common language will reference this still as a landau top. Chrysler Fifth Avenue landau tops are only half-length, so they go from the back and extend only half way forward, stopping midway on the roof.
Surprisingly, most Chrysler landau top models, including Chrysler 300 landau tops, Cordoba landau tops, Imperial, Imperial Crown and Imperial Lebaron landau tops, Chrysler Lebaron landau tops, and New Yorker landau tops have both full vinyl landau top configurations and half vinyl landau top configurations, where the landau vinyl top does not cover all the way to the front. Chrysler 300 models also offer a ¾ length vinyl landau top and late model Chrysler New Yorker offers a ¼ length vinyl landau top. In these instances purchasing a replacement landau top requires choosing the one that matches your specific Chrysler model: full, three-quarter , half and one-quarter vinyl landau tops.
Chrysler landau tops will be cut with specific fitment for 2-door models and 4-door models, so please make note of this option when selecting a replacement landau top for your Chrysler vinyl roof. Options include 2 and 4 door models with sedans, coupes, and hardtop variations, so this will be important when shopping for tops for these specific vehicles. Our product detail pages will guide you through anything that is important in distinguishing your specific Chrysler landau top to ensure you get the proper fit.
Sedan With Pillar Post vs. Hardtop Without Pillar Post
One additional distinction that Chrysler landau top made with their usage of vinyl landau tops is to vary whether the model package had a pillar post or not. A pillar post is the vertical support and separator found between the front and back passenger windows. If the Chrysler landau top has a pillar post, then it is referenced as a "sedan" and a vinyl landau top will be cut specifically to account for that window configuration. Without a pillar post the Chrysler landau top is referenced as a "hardtop" and has continuous side-window glass from the front windshield to the back quarter panels and the landau top will be cut for precise fitment. This package difference is relevant for Imperial vinyl landau tops, Newport landau tops, and New Yorker landau vinyl top models.
Original Chrysler Landau Vinyl Materials
When released, Chrysler offered two material textures for their vinyl roof coverings. These replacement tops come in one or both of these textures, depending on what the original Chrysler offering for that year and model was. The two material textures are: Elk Grain Vinyl and Levant Grain Vinyl. For a Chrysler Fifth Avenue vinyl roof, Imperial vinyl roof, and Lebaron vinyl roof, only Elk Grain Vinyl is offered, since that was the only original material texture offered by Chrysler. For the Chrysler models additional materials are offered, like aftermarket Boar Grain Vinyl and Corsica Grain Vinyl. All landau top vinyls are made by a Haartz and have a soft, fleece-lined backing. Each of these landau vinyls come in a variety of colors, including original ones, so you can match to the existing top that you are replacing.
Original Chrysler Landau Top Fit and Details
All of the Chrysler replacement vinyl landau tops offered by TopsOnline are made to factory original specifications, so you'll get the same style top that was originally offered by Chrysler, down to the details, stitches, cuts and textures. In earlier Chrysler landau models, landau tops came with two heat-sealed seams that ran along the roof of the vinyl top. They were stitched, then folded over and heat-sealed, so that the stitching was hidden. Around the late '70's and early ' 80's (depending on the model) Chrysler landau tops began using french seams on vinyl tops. The main difference with a french seam is that the stitching is not hidden, but showing on the top. Chrysler landau vinyl coverings sometimes offered more than one stitching pattern on their vinyl tops with french seams, so be careful to note which seam pattern you would like to match and replace.
